I recently purchased the Canon PowerShot SD790 IS from Walmart for $350 + 26.00 in tax. I needed to take a picture of a painting and my old Sony couldn’t handle the job. I find it interesting that the Sony camera I have, the cybershot DSC-S85 retailed at over $800 when it first came on the market back in 2001, touted at the world’s first 4 megapixel consumer grade digital camera. I’m not a digital camera expert or anything but by comparison to what’s available on the market today I’d have to guess my SONY is a Jurassic joke. It’s something to think that just because they were the world’s first 4 megapixel digital camera they were able to charge $800 for a camera that couldn’t compete today. Meanwhile the superior cameras of today (in the same class as far as type of camera) are retailing for significantly less.

Although it comes highly rated, I did return my Canon Powershot to Walmart because it didn’t quite meet my needs. It did come way closer than the SONY; but I guess I shouldn’t compare an outdated 4 megapixels camera with a more advanced 10 megapixels camera. I am still shopping around for a camera that will do a little better job than the powershot SD790. It would be great if I could get my hand on free discount codes for some of those ridiculously expensive cameras I’ve seen reviewed on pcmag. I’m thinking what I need is an SLR camera. I didn’t really care for the compactness of the powershot SD790 but I guess that’s the main feature of the camera and others like it. I think for the kind of work for which I need the camera something more robust might be necessary.

I’ve got my eye on the Nikon D300. Based on the specifications it sounds like it can more than meet my needs, but it comes at a whopping price range of $1,800.00 - $2,539.95.